We’ve got to have rules and obey them. After all, we’re not savages. We’re English, and the English are best at everything.
WILLIAM GOLDINGIf I blow the conch and they don’t come back; then we’ve had it. We shan’t keep the fire going. We’ll be like animals. We’ll never be rescued.” “If you don’t blow, we’ll soon be animals anyway.
More William Golding Quotes
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Which is better, law and rescue, or hunting and breaking things up?
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You’ll get back to where you came from.
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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?
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Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don’t think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
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While I am on, I can discipline myself to that extent. When I am off, I can’t discipline myself at all. On the other hand, when I am off, there are so many things I like doing, it doesn’t really matter.
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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.
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There were no words, and no movements but the tearing of teeth and claws.
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My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
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I do think that art that doesn’t communicate is useless.
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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.
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Marx, Darwin and Freud are the three most crashing bores of the Western World. Simplistic popularization of their ideas has thrust our world into a mental straitjacket from which we can only escape by the most anarchic violence.
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He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life,where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
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I am not a theologian or a philosopher. I am a story teller.
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Philosophy and Religion-what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?
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What a man does defiles him, not what is done by others.
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